“The European Parliament must play a central role if we want a democratic model of global governance”

In the context of ongoing globalisation, global governance is surely needed to provide solutions for key political problems that are more and more exceeding their longstanding geographical limits. The focus of political decisionmakers cannot stop at a border when our problems are so international.

The best example of these new challenges is, of course, the fight against climate change. Saving our environment is by its very nature a global question, and there is no doubt that only global agreements can counter the ecological dangers we have ourselves created.

This makes it a prime example for the problems of modern global governance. Interest groups and multinational corporations are competing for the attention of policymakers, and at the same time new ways are needed to ensure that citizens' voices are heard loud and clear.

The European Parliament as a directly elected body that is the only supranational parliament in the world, must play a central role if we want a democratic model of global governance.